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HSC Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences Current Awareness Bulletins: Obesity

Obesity current awareness bulletin

Frequency: Bi-monthly

Links to articles in the current and previous 2 issues of this bulletin are displayed below.

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June 2025

Are “copycat” compounded weight loss drugs safe?

Association between 24-hour movement behaviors and adiposity in children and adolescents

Behavior change techniques in low-calorie and very low-calorie diet interventions for weight loss

Closure of mesenteric defects for prevention of internal hernia after Roux‐en‐Y gastric bypass in bariatric surgery (new Cochrane intervention review)

Determinants of adherence to obesity medication: a narrative review

Estimating global prevalence of mild cognitive impairment and dementia in elderly with overweight, obesity, and central obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Features, functions, and associated diseases of visceral and ectopic fat: a comprehensive review

The gut microbiota as a link between colorectal cancer and obesity

Identifying effective obesity prevention intervention components: an umbrella review

The impact of behavioral weight management interventions on eating behavior traits in adults with overweight or obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Impact of child summertime obesity interventions on body mass index and weight-related behaviors

Low-energy diets before metabolic bariatric surgery: a systematic review of the effect on total body weight, liver volume, glycemia and side effects

Migrant parents' perceptions of the benefits, barriers, and facilitators of young children's physical activity and sedentary behavior: a systematic review of qualitative studies

Obesity is associated with progressive brain structural changes

Pollution, stress response, and obesity: a systematic review

Simulated retail food environments: a literature review of systems science approaches to advance equity in access to healthy diets

A systematic review of evidence that environmental contaminant exposure impedes weight loss and glycemic control during calorie-restricted diets in humans

Treatment of obesity: will incretin agonists make bariatric surgery a thing of the past?

Weight-loss interventions for adolescents with Down syndrome: a systematic review

Weight stigma in the preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum periods: a systematic review of women's perspectives

Sources

BMJ, The (Mar); Cochrane Library (Apr); Internal Medicine Journal (Mar); Obesity (Apr-May); Obesity Reviews (Apr-May)

April 2025

Changes in abdominal adipose tissues and ectopic fat depots during pregnancy are dissociated from gestational weight gain

Concurrent and prospective associations of social media usage with binge eating symptoms in early adolescence

Definition and diagnostic criteria of clinical obesity

Discovery of GLP-1–based drugs for the treatment of obesity

Effect of pediatric obesity treatment on long-term health

Efficacy and safety of a novel oral hydrogel capsule in adults with overweight or obesity (RESET study)

Global cancer burden attributable to excess body weight, 1990 to 2021

Global, regional, and national prevalence of adult overweight and obesity, 1990–2021, with forecasts to 2050: a forecasting study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

Global, regional, and national prevalence of child and adolescent overweight and obesity, 1990–2021, with forecasts to 2050: a forecasting study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

Grocery intervention and DNA-based assessment to improve diet quality in pediatric obesity

Hypothalamic obesity: from basic mechanisms to clinical perspectives

Interplay between genetic risk and built neighborhood conditions as predictor of BMI across the transition into adulthood

Overweight and obesity management (new NICE guideline NG246)

Racial and ethnic disparities in clinical trials for pediatric obesity

Racial disparities in gestational weight gain and adverse pregnancy outcomes among Black and White pregnant people with obesity

Relationship between community characteristics and impact of calorie labeling on fast-food purchases

Safety profile of semaglutide versus placebo in the SELECT study: a randomized controlled trial

Skeletal muscle growth to combat diabetes and obesity: the potential role of muscle-secreted factors

Tirzepatide for managing overweight and obesity (new NICE guideline TA1026)

Trends in educational inequalities in obesity-attributable mortality in England and Wales, Finland, and Italy

Sources

JAMA Pediatrics (Mar); Lancet, The (Mar); Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, The (Jan); NEJM (Feb); NICE website (Dec-Jan); Obesity (Feb-Mar)

February 2025

Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss

Anti-obesity medication in the management of children and adolescents with obesity

Association of sleep duration with obesity in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Discrimination and stigma associated with obesity: a Comparative study between Spain and Egypt

Effects of intermittent fasting and caloric restriction on inflammatory biomarkers in individuals with obesity/overweight: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Identifying behavior change techniques (BCTs) in responsive feeding interventions to prevent childhood obesity—a systematic review

The impact of behavioral weight management interventions on eating behavior traits in children with overweight or obesity: systematic review and meta-analysis

Implementation effectiveness of an antenatal lifestyle intervention to optimize gestational weight gain in women with obesity

Interventions for the prevention of weight gain during festive and holiday periods in children and adults: a systematic review

Investigating the multifactorial correlation between obesity and rheumatoid arthritis: a study of immunological and biochemical markers

Long-term change in BMI for children with obesity treated in family-centered lifestyle interventions

Longer-term effects of intermittent fasting on body composition and cardiometabolic health in adults with overweight and obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Planning policies to restrict fast food and inequalities in child weight in England

Potential pathways to the onset and development of eating disorders in people with overweight and obesity: a scoping review

Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents with obesity

The prognostic role of food addiction for weight loss treatment outcomes in individuals with overweight and obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Psychological attributes and eating behaviors in 5- to 12-year-old children during periods of stress

Psychological well-being and the reversal of childhood overweight and obesity in the UK

A review on drug repurposing applicable to obesity

Siesta behavior and genetics interact to influence obesity risk

Strategies for enhancing the implementation of school‐based policies or practices targeting diet, physical activity, obesity, tobacco or alcohol use (updated Cochrane intervention review)

Twelve-month analysis of real-world evidence from a telehealth obesity-treatment provider using antiobesity medications

Sources

Clinical Endocrinology (Jan); Cochrane Library (Dec); Geriatrics and Gerontology International (Dec); Nature (Nov); Obesity (Dec-Jan); Obesity Facts (Dec); Obesity Medicine (Dec); Obesity Reviews (Jan-Feb)

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